This event will be a panel discussion with Eamonn McCann and Jason Kirkpatrick to examine the implications for our understanding of Bloody Sunday given the revelations at the ‘SpyCops’ inquiry in London. Speaking about the event McCann said:
“Jason Kirkpatrick was hunted and harried across these islands and farther afield by British undercover police because of his involvement in campaigns for justice, equality and the environment.”
“Jason is one of the key witnesses at the ‘SpyCops’ Inquiry, now under way in London. He will tell how he was targeted by police attached to Britain’s National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), who shadowed him in Ireland North and South, and in Scotland and continental Europe
“They didn’t suspect him of crime or terrorism. But they knew that he was a dedicated activist for decent causes. That was enough for them to put him in the crosshairs of their pursuit.”
“The parallels with repression in the North are clear.”
Speakers:
Eamonn McCann: won the 2011 Amnesty International Media Awardfor his reporting in the Belfast Telegraph and elsewhere on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
Jason Kirkpatrick is an anti-globalisation campaigner who attended the 2005 G8 Summit at Gleneagles, Scotland, and handled media for a protest organisation called Dissent.
Chair: Bernadette McAliskey is a former MP, PD member and the most prominent member of the NHBAC. At the height of the prisoners campaign both Bernadette and her husband Michael were targeted in an assassination attempt by the Ulster Defence Association. They were the latest in a list of H block activists to be shot and the only two to survive.